Chocolate Chip Apple Bread

It tasted great, and might taste even better to you if you make it in a free ProBake loaf pan courtesy of DuPont Teflon.

Just leave a comment telling me your least favorite step in baking, and you will be entered into a random drawing for a scratch resistant, Teflon coated ProBake loaf pan and a very durable, non-buckling, Teflon coated Pro-Bake cookie sheet. I plan on drawing a winner Monday morning, so leave your comment before 6:30 AM CST Monday morning.

And read on to hear more about my experience with the bread and the bakeware…..

The quick bread was convenient. I made it all in one bowl and didn’t bother to grease or line the ProBake loaf pan since the point of the Teflon coating is to keep things from sticking. The bread baked very evenly, had a dense crust, and a surprisingly pleasing texture despite the lack of fat.

The chocolate chips did stick a bit, so I’d advise you to add a thin coat of cooking spray to the bottom of the pan if baking something with chips. Other than that, the loaf pan worked well and I’m confident most loaves, especially ones made with oil, will slide right out.

The ProBake cookie sheet was even better. I used it to roast a batch of potatoes at 450F. The potatoes didn’t stick and there was no buckling, which is a problem I’ve been having with my other baking sheets as of late – some of which are more expensive than ProBake.

ProBake can be found at major retailers and on Amazon. Or if you’re lucky, in a box on your front door! Just leave that comment telling me something you do NOT like about baking….particularly, a step. Mine would be measuring and mixing dry ingredients because I always make a mess.

I hate when the recipe calls for sifting ingredients as I’m not fond of having to wash the sifter. 🙂 Out of curiosity, does the label on these items say it’s dishwasher safe, but when you read the fine print, it suggests you hand wash it? Wilton and most others say this.

I’m not sure this contest is open to Canadians but I wanted to play anyways! The least favourite part of baking for me is creaming the butter with sugar. I know I should just use that step to measure out my other ingredients but I now look for recipes where you just incorporate melted butter into the rest of the ingredients.

Louise, that’s a good question. I looked at the fine print and it said to clean it with hot soapy water or in an automatic dishwasher. They cautioned against using steel wool (as expected). Who’d use steel wool on Teflon, anyway?

My least favorite part is making batches. When the first batch comes out I like to burn my mouth on the fresh hot baked delicacy. Once I have tried it, I sometimes get too distracted by the finished product that I burn the second batch. Maybe that’s just me but I wish they could all be done at once.

I live in an extremely cramped apartment so I detest gathering everything I need for the recipe. I have things tucked everywhere, no good system (I’ve tried). I have yet to figure out how to down size my kitchen.

My least favorite part is waiting long enough for it to cool that I don’t make a mess while cutting or (more likely) burning my tongue tasting it! Seriously though, I like to bake and don’t really mind ANY of the steps!

I’m just playing along — I don’t want to be entered in the contest because I was lucky enough to win the awesome containers and cupcake liners that Anna gave away recently (see, real people DO win!!). Anyway I hate the cleanup just like most everyone else. And thanks again Anna!!

I’m really not sure I could think of something that is my least favorite about baking. I really enjoy all of it. But I like what Kelli just said on the comment before me–the waiting to taste part! I’m really not fond of dirty dishes much either. 😉

My least favorite part is waiting for ingredients to come to room temperature. I always forget about that and then I’m trying to place the butter close to the radiator so that it’ll soften more quickly. 🙂

I would say my least favorite thing is when the baked item will not come out of the pan-at all. I made macaroons in a mini muffin pan so they were cute, bite sized and so I would not have to shape each one. I sprayed the pay, but it did not matter. I could not get a single one out of the pan-argh!

I’m ‘okay’ with washing the dishes, even though I don’t have a dishwasher. Cleaning up flour is much more annoying, because it gets everywhere. But I would have to say that my absolute least favorite task is cleaning off any chocolate that gets on my clothes. I always forget to put on an apron or an old shirt

My least favorite step is removing the cake or brownies from the pan. I know they’ll always come out because I always use parchment, but there’s always that irrational fear that it’ll break and get destroyed when I try to take it out!

I guess I would have to go along with what many others are saying…and that is the cleanup. When I was still living at home I would bake something, make a terrible mess, and leave it to my grandma to clean up. I don’t think she minded though and she would get me back when it came time for canning. She didn’t make me clean up but I did have to help and that was some hot work.

I don’t like having to do all the chopping/cutting of ingredients. I will clean up for you and grease your pans any day if you’ll chop/cut for me!!
Thanks for the opportunity to see that box at my door :-))

My least favorite thing to do is take the baked item out of the pan it’s in after it is cooled! I always get very nervous about will it or won’t it stick to the bottom? I take it very personally when it won’t come out after all that hard work making it ! : ) LOL!

Greasing my baking pans. I know it sounds crazy but I refuse to use Pam for reasons of chemicals in the product plus most people not recycling their cans so I bought a Pampered Chef spray thingy. It works but my biceps get a workout pumping that thing up. Sigh, me and my crazy convictions. 🙂